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CourthouseUSA, a leading provider of web-based and mobile applications for the assessment and real estate communities announces ValueArmor Standard Edition for the state of Massachusetts is now available through the Hexagon Geospatial Marketplace.

ValueArmor, a web-based mapping application, provides quick and affordable access to statewide commercial property data and sales via an easy to use map interface. ValueArmor Standard Edition is available now in the state of Massachusetts at an affordable cost, starting at $500 per year and includes:

Statewide Commercial Data – View over 80,000 commercial data points from all over the state along with attribute data.

Filtering for Comps – One-click filtering charts allow you to easily segment the data to identify comparable properties anywhere within the state.

Sales Ratios – Interactive chart allows you to view or filter by sales ratios helping to identify properties that are potentially over or under assessed.

Export – Export filtered results to an excel format

please contact Billy@courthouseusa.com if you have any questions or would like a demo.

CourthouseUSA, a leading provider of web-based and mobile applications for the assessment and real estate communities announces ValueArmor Gold for the state of Florida is now available through the Hexagon Geospatial Marketplace.

ValueArmor, a web-based mapping application, provides quick and affordable access to statewide commercial property data and sales via an easy to use map interface. ValueArmor Gold includes the same features as ValueArmor Standard (access to statewide commercial data, filtering to find comps, sales ratios charts, and exporting) with the addition of AVM values for 98,000 properties.

The Model and the Modeler

Patrick M. O’Connor, ASA is an international leader in the field of Computer-Assisted Appraisal. Mr. O’Connor is President of O’Connor Consulting Incorporated, which provides consultant services in ratio studies, market analysis and computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) valuations for assessment authorities and AVMs for private sector clients.

Mr. O’Connor has provided consulting services, performed real estate analysis and/or developed computer-assisted valuations using econometric models in Canada, England, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Russia Federation and the United States. Mr. O’Connor conceptualized and developed Location Value Response Surface Analysis as a modern computerized method to analyze the impact of location on real estate value.

The commercial AVM makes use of the best of geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical modeling techniques to create a supportable comparable sales program. The model uses the International Association of Assessing Officers’ (IAAO) hybrid model specification to create valuation formulas that have dollar adjustments for quantities like square footage of the building. These values per square footage are multiplied by qualitative adjustments (percentages) such as grade or construction quality.

Please contact Billy@courthouseusa.com if you have any questions or would like a demo.

Apr 4, 2017 — CourthouseUSA, a leading provider of mobile applications for the assessment and real estate communities announces ValueArmor Standard Edition for the state of Maryland is now available through the Hexagon Geospatial Marketplace.

ValueArmor, a web-based mapping application, provides easy and affordable access to statewide commercial property data to help ensure fair and equitable taxation and promote negotiation over litigation. ValueArmor Standard Edition is available now in the state of Maryland at an affordable cost, $2400 per year per county with unlimited users and includes:

Statewide Commercial Data – View over 100,000 commercial data points from all over the state along with attribute data and a live link to the state assessment database.

Filtering for Comps – One-click filtering charts allow you to easily segment the data to identify comparable properties anywhere within the state.

Sales Ratios – Interactive chart allows you to view or filter by sales ratios helping to identify properties that are potentially over or under assessed.

Export – Export filtered results to an excel format

ValueArmor – Gold Edition (coming soon) will include all the features listed above PLUS AVM values for commercial properties over 10K square foot; at a site license cost of $9500 per year.

If you are not in Maryland but would like your state made available through ValueArmor, please contact Billy@courthouseusa.com to get your state added to the list.

Gary Vaynerchuk said it best – “If content is king, then context is God“. Of course Gary was mostly referring to marketing and advertising content. However, the same holds true for location based data as content. Data, content, big data, whatever you want to call it, is becoming more readily available. This is in part due to the great work of Code for America and the open data movement. The problem is we have more data than we know what to do with – unless we add context to the data. There are lots of opportunities to take all of this content and add context by making it extremely relevant for very specific purposes.

Foursquare provides a great example. If you’ve read my other blog posts you know I’m a big fan of Foursquare and that’s in part due to being a big fan of location based data. You may think of Foursquare as an app company. Actually, they are a data company. They have one of the best location based platforms on the market with 65 million venues, billions of check-ins, and 70 million tips tied to those locations. That’s the reason more than 85,000 developers have built products using Foursquare’s data. When you open the Foursquare app, you’re not overwhelmed by the massive amount of data that powers the app because the data is made contextually relevant for a single purpose – location based search and discovery of venues.

We’re currently seeing a trend whereas apps are becoming more focused on the context of very specific actions. Just look at all of the single purpose apps popping up.

Parcel, or property data, is another location based layer that’s quickly “opening up” and becoming more readily available. Many companies, mine included, sell that content in bulk format. However, as the data flood gates open, content will give way to context. You’ll see less of a need for selling the data and more of a need for selling very specific and contextually relevant solutions tailored to a variety of industries.

I’m excited to see all of the solutions that will come out of the open parcel data movement. By the way if you have any ideas for one of those contextually relevant solutions for your industry using property data – email me atbilly@courthouseusa.com. We are on the lookout for partners / developers that want to build solutions for an industry using nationwide parcel data.